High-wire Act
Now that the last of the backdrops have been installed, I am doing research for the scenery that we want to represent. In the back corner, I have a place where the narrow-gauge slate quarry line disappears (to conceal its…
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Construction
It’s alive!
Well, I got what I hope was the final (short) bug out of the wiring and so trains can now run around the entire layout. Lots of track cleaning is needed from glue spots and the like. My Class 09…
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Wiring complete
The last module is wired! It was the PD throat – with 28 Cobalts, two BlocD8s a hex juicer and two dual juicers. The picture shows progress at the halfway stage when all the motors were wired for testing but…
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A Dremelling we will go
When I place all the point motors, I find that things have sometimes moved since I drilled the holes for the actuators. So work is needed, but the track is down. So the technique I use is to use a Dremel…
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In the home straight
Work has started on the second last module – Port Dinllaen station (the throat will be the very last). After one hour’s work it looked like this – not too impressive – but lots of opening out and adjusting the…
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Here we go round the ….
Modules 11, 12 and 13 are complete! This leaves just two to go (all be it 2 of the most involved). I started assembling the ones that are complete – all around the walls.
Mind The Gap
The Nantlle module has completed wiring and so now it can be placed into position. Because it is over some shelves, it had to adapted to fit with a single leg on the front. This revealed that the brackets were about…
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Helicopter view of RHS modules
We have now got the two modules on the right-hand side complete – and so this is what they look-like when assembled. Both turntables work – powered by simple two function DCC decoders and Locomotech motors and gears.
Cobalt En Passant
Under Nantlle there is one point motor position where the hidden tracks are too high for a cobalt to fit “normally”. At this point I have used a 90 degree adaptor to allow the motor to be placed horizontally and…
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